About

Formal Sheep is an independent game development company which aims to create thought-provoking, surreal, and fun experiences. It was founded in March 2016 by Gary Chao. Its debut game, The Rabbit and the Owl, is currently under development and is tentatively set to release in 2017 on Steam for PC and Mac. Formal Sheep is currently based near Sacramento, California.

Gary Chao graduated from the University of California, Los Angeles in 2013 with a bachelor’s in Computer Science. He has always loved video games of all forms ever since he played Commander Keen as a child. Immediately out of college, he decided to follow his dream of creating video games. After over a year of trial and error going through many different ideas, Gary conceptualized The Rabbit and the Owl in April 2015 and decided to fully develop it in August 2015.​